Black and women reformers were divided over ratification of the 14th Amendment

QUESTION 7Black and women reformers were divided over ratification of the 14th Amendment because:

Black leaders did not want equal rights for women

Women leaders did not want equal rights for blacks

Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton did not like each other

Women leaders were concerned about the term “male” in the amendment

 

QUESTION 8Industrial growth in the late 19th century South was primarily limited to:

Steel Production

Automobiles

High Technology

Textiles

 

QUESTION 9By using vertical integration of his steel business, Andrew Carnegie was able to:

Promote competition

Increase profits

Devote more time to writing books

Supported organized Labor to increase workers wages

 

QUESTION 10Novelists Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane often described:

Social Problems in Urban America

Rags-to riches heroes

Romantic days of rural America

Harsh treatment of former slaves

 

QUESTION 11The 1890 massacre of 200 Sioux Indians is known as:

Trail of Tears

Wounded Knee

Ghost Dance

Black Elk

 

QUESTION 12 “Twisting the Lion’s Tail” referred to:

The strong U.S.-British alliance

U.S. rhetoric used to insult the British

Animal cruelty

British “Man of War”

 

QUESTION 13"New South" advocates:

Discouraged industrialization in the South

Believed the South should be self-sufficient in manufacturing & agriculture

Rejected entrepreneurial values

Refused Northern dollars for Southern development

 

QUESTION 14Tariffs involved the following EXCEPT:

Protection against foreign goods

Advocation of free trade

Helped American industry compete with foreign imports

Consumer did not get the lowest price

 

QUESTION 15Congressional and Presidential Reconstruction Plans had the following in common EXCEPT:

Supporting scalawags

Punishing Confederate leadership

Readmitting the former Confederate States

Military Reconstruction and Occupation

 

QUESTION 16The Erie Railroad scandal involved the following EXCEPT:

Vanderbilt’s attempted hostile take over of the Erie Railroad

Big Jim Fisk’s printing of bogus stock

A legitimate and honest business deal

Rivalry between Vanderbilt and the Erie Gang

 

QUESTION 17An African American Congressman from North Alabama during the late 19th century was:

Blanch Bruce

Hiram Revels

Thomas Rapier

Joe Wheeler

 

QUESTION 18The following are associated with Standard Oil EXCEPT:

J.D. Rockefeller

Social Darwinism

Competition

Trusts

 

QUESTION 19The Populist Party advocated the following EXCEPT:

Regulation of railroads

Unlimited coinage of silver

No government intervention in the economy

Secret Ballot in all elections

 

QUESTION 20Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois disagreed over the following EXCEPT:

Gradualism

Equality for African Americans v. skilled workers

Stressing profession development

Method of reaching goals

 

QUESTION 21The only Democrat elected President during the Gilded Age was:

Rutherford B. Hayes

Grover Cleveland

William McKinley

U.S. Grant

 

QUESTION 22The following proved to restrict blacks politically, economically and socially EXCEPT:

Restrictions on Voting

Black Codes & Jim Crow Laws

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Civil Rights Act of 1875

 

QUESTION 23One result of the management techniques of John D. Rockefeller and other industrialists of the late 19th century was the:

Use of the business trust and monopoly to control an industry

Development of greater competition

Disappearance of the urban middle class

A more even distribution of income

 

QUESTION 24Debtors generally favored the following EXCEPT:

Inflation

Sound Money

Paper Money

16 to 1 Coinage of Silver

 

QUESTION 25By 1890, the South had:

Surpassed the North in Manufacturing

Eliminated the Tariff to improve agricultural prices on the world market

Remained economically dependent on the North

Rejected all of its old values

 

QUESTION 26An obvious denial of equality in the late 19th century was demonstrated by the fact that women could not:

Own personal property

Vote in all states

Exercis free speech

Enroll in colleges

 

QUESTION 27Samuel Clemons is better known as:

Mark Twain

Tom Clancey

Sue Grafton

Ian Fleming

 

QUESTION 28Buffalo Soldiers involved the following EXCEPT:

African-American soldiers in the West

Custer’s soldiers at Little Big Horn

Tenth Cavalry

Segregated units

 

QUESTION 29Soft Money or 'Rag Money' included the following EXCEPT:

Silver

Greenbacks

Gold Standard

Inflation

 

QUESTION 30According to the American Federation of Labor, the main concern of a national union should be to:

Organize workers in all trades

Cooperate with employees to win concessions

Use the political system to win concessions

Focus on immediate, practical benefits

 

QUESTION 31In the late 19th century, all of the following factors combined to deny blacks equality EXCEPT:

Repeal of the 14th Amendment

Terrorist acts like lynchings

Sharecropper systems in agriculture

Poll taxes and grandfather clauses

 

QUESTION 32The following involved the 1896 presidential election EXCEPT:

Gold v. Silver as a bases for US currency

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Jennings Bryan

 

QUESTION 33Eugene Debs:

Turned to Socialism after the Pullman strike

Forced George Pullman to make concessions in 1894

Organized the successful railway strike of 1877

Headed the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

 

QUESTION 34Late 19th Century inventions included the follwing EXCEPT:

Movies

Telephone

Cash ter

Airplane

 

QUESTION 35According to Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896, decision:

Separate facilities for Blacks and Whites were illegal

Segregation laws violated the 14th Amendment

Black voters could be disenfranchised through the "good character" clause

"Separate but equal" accommodations were Constitutional

 

QUESTION 36 the 19th century, urban political bosses:

Supported the Settlement House movement

Advocated the preaching of the Social Gospel

Supported by middle-class urban reformers

Obtained votes by doing favors for immigrants

 

QUESTION 37James Weaver's 1892 presidential race included the following EXCEPT:

Received Electoral votes

Control of Railroads

Promoted Laissez Faire

Attacked monopolies

 

QUESTION 38The dominant economic force in the post war South was:

Corn

Steel Industry

Cotton

Technology

 

QUESTION 39The Patrons of Husbandry was also known as the:

Populist Party

Grange Movement

Farmers Alliance

Red Grangers

 

QUESTION 40Sound Money advocates most feared:

Deflation

High interest rates

Falling stock prices

 

QUESTION 41In the late 19th century, most business managers viewed their workers as:

Worthy of safe and pleasant work environments

Expendable commodities who could be easily replaced

Radical anarchists threatening their property

Equal partners in making decisions about the workplace

 

QUESTION 42Textile mills in the 19th century South involved the following EXCEPT:

Child labor

Low wages

Unions were encouraged

Dominated Southern industry

 

QUESTION 43The important factor in promoting settlement of the Great Plains was:

Construction of railroads in that region

Decline in farm indebtedness

Inflationary economic conditions

Elimination of Indian resistance to settlement in 1876

 

QUESTION 44The Southern city that emerged as a steel producing center was:

Atlanta

Birmingham

Charleston

Huntsville

 

QUESTION 45All of the following were reasons why farmers tended to be in debt in the 1880's EXCEPT:

Farm cooperatives greatly increased costs

Prices for farm products fell

National currency shortage existed

Farmers paid very high mortgage interest rates

 

QUESTION 46One of the many mass circulation magazines published during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was:

National Enquirer

Time

Newsweek

Harper's Weekly

 

QUESTION 47Andrew Carnegie was associated with the following EXCEPT:

Vertical Integration

Philanthropist

Gospel of Wealth

Triumph of Democracy

 

QUESTION 48Farmers and Debtors advicated US policies that included the following EXCEPT:

Greenbacks and Silver Currency

Moderate Inflation

Gold Standard

Regulated Railroad Costs

 

QUESTION 49Tensions between the US and Great Britain continued after the Civil War because of:

The dispute over Canada

President Johnson's impeachment

The Alabama Claims

Purchase of Alaska

 

QUESTION 50Industries that began to move to southern cities and towns during the late 19th century are known as:

Steel Mills

Textile or Cotton Mills

Automobile Plants

Space and Missile Defense